Flight to the West (by Elmer Rice, produced by The Playwrights' Co.) is the first Broadway play to deal with the world crisis since Robert Sherwood's "There Shall Be No Night." Its functional if unexciting scene is the interior of a transatlantic Clipper during a Lisbon-New York flight. The interior, is so faithfully reproduced that old Clipperites might expect genial Captain Bill Winston to wander in and begin expounding his sure-fire method of winning at roulette.
For mise enscéne it beats the transatlantic voyage in the cinema's Foreign Correspondent.
It nevertheless takes much more...
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